End of Pro Lenses? NEW Lens Blur in Photoshop!
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Date: 2023-10-26
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All well explained and demonstrated as usual Unmesh. You are the bar when in comes to teaching cutting-edge PS skills. But to the (mildly) professional eye it really falls short. In many aspects I must say. I really hope this is not what those learning the craft and art of photography come to expect and deliver to clients. It simply doesn't look real at nearly any resolution. That aside, I could literally afford to buy a 1.4 lens in the time it would take me to process 2 to 3 portrait sessions with the precision you demonstrate here. And yet with PS the results would still look ... well ... fake.
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All well explained and demonstrated as usual Unmesh. You are the bar when in comes to teaching cutting-edge PS skills. But to the (mildly) professional eye it really falls short. In many aspects I must say. I really hope this is not what those learning the craft and art of photography come to expect and deliver to clients. It simply doesn't look real at nearly any resolution. That aside, I could literally afford to buy a 1.4 lens in the time it would take me to process 2 to 3 portrait sessions with the precision you demonstrate here. And yet with PS the results would still look ... well ... fake.
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Picaresque
Good analysis as always, and good solutions to work around the bad masking. I've had my own play with this feature and found it to be very unreliable as of now. The Focal Range does not always correctly analyse an image and there is no way to tell it which objects belong to which depth. We'd need to be able to change the heat image like a normal map for it to be accurate. As of now, this for me is an improved tilt-shift blur.
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Good analysis as always, and good solutions to work around the bad masking. I've had my own play with this feature and found it to be very unreliable as of now. The Focal Range does not always correctly analyse an image and there is no way to tell it which objects belong to which depth. We'd need to be able to change the heat image like a normal map for it to be accurate. As of now, this for me is an improved tilt-shift blur.
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Thirsty
It just doesn't look good at all to me, nor does the way iPhones do it (even worse). If it's applied very subtly, it could probably get a more desirable effect, but it always seems like the subject is superimposed onto a background (which is blurred to the point where it offers little to no information to the viewer) or that the background has been deliberately blurred out.
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It just doesn't look good at all to me, nor does the way iPhones do it (even worse). If it's applied very subtly, it could probably get a more desirable effect, but it always seems like the subject is superimposed onto a background (which is blurred to the point where it offers little to no information to the viewer) or that the background has been deliberately blurred out.
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Arturo
Yeah, we have been doing it manually since smartphone cameras hit the mainstream. I always drew manually a mask to use as reference for the traditional lens blur effect. What we really needed is for adobe to just give us the tool that creates detects the depthmap. And then we could have taken that and pulled it into lens blur filter.
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Yeah, we have been doing it manually since smartphone cameras hit the mainstream. I always drew manually a mask to use as reference for the traditional lens blur effect. What we really needed is for adobe to just give us the tool that creates detects the depthmap. And then we could have taken that and pulled it into lens blur filter.
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Gustav
Hello everyone
Can someone help me please?
My camera raw lags when i select people or a single person lags SO MUCH like about 3 seconds something like that :(
i dont know what to do
my system is good like i have ryzen 7 32gb ram and rtx 3060 12gb
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Hello everyone
Can someone help me please?
My camera raw lags when i select people or a single person lags SO MUCH like about 3 seconds something like that :(
i dont know what to do
my system is good like i have ryzen 7 32gb ram and rtx 3060 12gb
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Alexandre
Hi Unmesh, always very nice watching your video.
But what result to expect if I want to use the focus pen somewhere it was blurred or badly focused during the shoot?? Can AI bring this back to (partially) focus?
Thank you, Alex.
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Hi Unmesh, always very nice watching your video.
But what result to expect if I want to use the focus pen somewhere it was blurred or badly focused during the shoot?? Can AI bring this back to (partially) focus?
Thank you, Alex.
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David
like with any other adjustment, this might save your day to ever so SLIGHTLY blur the background, but digital blur doesnt beat the real thing :) also lets not forget shooting in low light, when that 1.4 saves your day (or night)
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like with any other adjustment, this might save your day to ever so SLIGHTLY blur the background, but digital blur doesnt beat the real thing :) also lets not forget shooting in low light, when that 1.4 saves your day (or night)
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Colin
Hi Unmesh, great video I was thinking my windows computer was playing up, think adobe perhaps should have worked on the freezing issue using the blur tool first before a release....Thank again. Colin Devon UK....
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Hi Unmesh, great video I was thinking my windows computer was playing up, think adobe perhaps should have worked on the freezing issue using the blur tool first before a release....Thank again. Colin Devon UK....
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oldskoolpixels
Very interesting and impressive, but PS has a very long way to go before it is able to realistically reproduce bokeh/lens blur. It's pretty easy (for now!) to spot a fake vs a real version.
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Very interesting and impressive, but PS has a very long way to go before it is able to realistically reproduce bokeh/lens blur. It's pretty easy (for now!) to spot a fake vs a real version.
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guusbeeld
Great stream, as always... but by you showed flaws are done in the 'early access' (beta) of course it need some perfection, but showed by you Adobe probable makes more perfection to it..., Bye
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Great stream, as always... but by you showed flaws are done in the 'early access' (beta) of course it need some perfection, but showed by you Adobe probable makes more perfection to it..., Bye
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Solrac
Imagine you have about a hundred to a thousand of that shots... that's a lot of time for editing..lol. especially as you getting older the time you can stay in front of screen is getting less.
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Imagine you have about a hundred to a thousand of that shots... that's a lot of time for editing..lol. especially as you getting older the time you can stay in front of screen is getting less.
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Deruzejaku
It's a cool option, and may be usable in the future, but it does feel kinda off to me, so maybe one day I will throw out my camera and do everything in post... oh wait I won't xD
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It's a cool option, and may be usable in the future, but it does feel kinda off to me, so maybe one day I will throw out my camera and do everything in post... oh wait I won't xD
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Morten
I seriously doubt it! You cannot get to the quality of blending the focused subject with the background digitally, the way a lens does it plus lenses have different bokeh so there!
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I seriously doubt it! You cannot get to the quality of blending the focused subject with the background digitally, the way a lens does it plus lenses have different bokeh so there!
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David
Great tutorial as always, but far too many workarounds for something that should work simply and quickly. I see no reason to abandon or sell my fast lenses anytime soon or ever.
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Great tutorial as always, but far too many workarounds for something that should work simply and quickly. I see no reason to abandon or sell my fast lenses anytime soon or ever.
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supermanlovers
In Lightroom it looks very artificial. The masking also worked badly. You can see an unattractive transition around the people. Maybe usable in a few months.
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In Lightroom it looks very artificial. The masking also worked badly. You can see an unattractive transition around the people. Maybe usable in a few months.
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Marisa
I would rather be the best photographer I can be, and use photoshop to tweak a few things or use it to create fantasy art. I'm not giving up my lenses, lol...
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I would rather be the best photographer I can be, and use photoshop to tweak a few things or use it to create fantasy art. I'm not giving up my lenses, lol...
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Toddy
Hey save money on good lenses by following this 40 step process to put fake blur in your shots......sigh
No thanks my money is less valuable than my time.
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Hey save money on good lenses by following this 40 step process to put fake blur in your shots......sigh
No thanks my money is less valuable than my time.
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Gordon
Great video, I'm not so sure about the results. What might be good to see is a side by side version from in camera (real lens blur) and post production
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Great video, I'm not so sure about the results. What might be good to see is a side by side version from in camera (real lens blur) and post production
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Zen
this feature may be a solution for dirty fixes but dont expect professional results without tons of effort. photography gear and experience cant be beat
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this feature may be a solution for dirty fixes but dont expect professional results without tons of effort. photography gear and experience cant be beat
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daze507
I must admit I've been impressed when I tried it (in Camera Raw), still not perfect but it's getting there.
AI is really changing everything.
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I must admit I've been impressed when I tried it (in Camera Raw), still not perfect but it's getting there.
AI is really changing everything.
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